1 Corinthians 4:14
I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 20:31Therefore watch, keeping in memory, that for three years I ceased not, with tears to admonish every one of you night and day.
1 Corinthians 6:5I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren ?
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.
2 Corinthians 7:3I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before, that you are in our hearts, to die together, and to live together.
2 Corinthians 12:14Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Colossians 1:28Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:8-14
Caution against Censoriousness; Distressed Condition of the Apostles. ( a. d. 57.) 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a… Read the whole commentary →